Career
He is perhaps best known for writing Linguistic Imperialism and English-Only Europe?: Challenging Language Policy (translated in Esperanto by István Ertl: Ĉu nur-angla Eŭropo? Defio al lingva politiko). He graduated as an undergraduate from Cambridge University
He got his Doctor of Philosophy from the University of Amsterdam and his interests include language pedagogy, language policy, and linguistic human rights. Linguapax Institute describes them as "renowned advocates of multilingual education as a factor of peace and of linguistic rights against cultural and linguistic homogenization processes".